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directors on the Board could be outvoted.

That if Your Petitioner would surrender himself for

" trial in Canton, then 6 months' imprisonment would and the

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matter of his alleged traitorous collaboration.

That on the 28th August, 1946, the Canton Military

#1 Headquarters had delivered through Locke-Loy-tim a

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memorandum to the Hong Kong Government seeking the surrender

to the Chinese authorities of 12 collaborators including

Your Petitioner; that if the Hong Kong Government, in their

reply, should be favourable to Your Petitioner, then Canton

Military Headquarters would make an announcement to this

effect. Though this would not mean simultaneous cancellation

of the order for Your Petitioner's arrest, he the General,

11 however would guarantee delay in action so that when the

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opportunity should arise, Your Petitioner would be

n exonerated, on the one condition that 'official shares' as

#1 aforesaid should be issued.

That should the Wah Kiu Yat Po refuse to issue such

W official shares and thereby resist control, Wong Hau Cheung

11 and his staff now on the Wah Kiu Yat Po were to quit such

employment and 3 days later the General would institute

# action; that something would have to be done to Ho Kin

# Cheung, the former Chief Editor of the paper, and one Au

11 Yeung Wai, one of the Editors, as these 2 were the right-hand

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men of Your Petitioner and had considerable influence on

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Your Petitioner's views.

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That according to Locke Loy-tim, the Hong Kong

Government had hinted that Your Petitioner's surrender would

#1 be possible.

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That he, the General, had consulted Chin Shu-fan, the

# veteran lawyer, who se opinion was that since Hong Kong had

during the war come within the China theatre and the officer

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